Imagine that you are standing at a crowded open space. Around you, there are countless number of people-- some you know, your partner, family members, friends, acquaintances, while others are complete strangers. In the distance, you start to hear people chanting slogans, and as you look up, you see people holding up signs. You are at a rally, at a peace rally, to be specific. Often, we think of a rally as a protest, we show up to tell the world what we do not want, what we oppose, what we are against. In this rally that you are in, it's different. It is a peace rally, and you are here to promote and advocate the kind of world that you wish to live in. You start to become aware that you too are holding up a sign. You turn the sign towards you. What does this sign say? What kind of world do you wish to live in? What does the world need from all of us?

​We do not need to wait a minute longer before we become the change we wish to see in the world. We do not have to wait to have more money, become politicians, sort out our personal relationships, climb up the career ladder etc before we are able to make a difference. The sign that you held in the peace rally of your mind is your intention. It is the message in which you can choose to live your life-- in word, thought, and action. We do not have to count on the world to conform to how we want it to be; we can count on ourselves to be the change. Go back to the peace rally in your mind, take one more look at the sign you were holding up, and start to put it down. It is now time to go home, to come back to this present moment. It is now time to bring this vision to reality, to bring this intention to every cell of our being, to bring this ideal of the world as the work that we need to do. ​It is said that it's not a question of whether we change the world or not. We ultimately do. The question is, in what way do we change the world?